Bruce Sterling: Beyond The Bits
é da un po' di tempo che il grande romanziere americano Bruce Sterling frequenta con competenza e sensibilit il mondo dell'arte digitale internazionale... READ MORE...
Interviews
Ken Jacobs: The Demiurgo Of The Moving Image
Mentre scrivo questo 'pezzo' la dodicesima edizione del Sonic Acts volge al termine e come ogni evento che si appresta alla conclusione lascia nell'animo di chi era presente, come pure di chi non c'era, l'enorme ansia della perdita che non solo lo scivolare via d'un momento presente che si vorrebbe eterno, ma il timore dell'essersi lasciati sfuggire qualcosa da sotto il naso: un'intuizione, un momento, un bagliore irripetibile per sempre andato.... READ MORE...
Taylor Deupree: The Beauty Of Minimalism
Nel mondo della musica contemporanea e dell'arte digitale Taylor Deupree considerato uno dei migliori interpreti della rivoluzione digitale a cui abbiamo assistito in questi ultimi anni. ... READ MORE...
Dafne Boggeri: Zigzagging Between Images And Sound
Dafne Boggeri is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and many-sided artistic personalities who have emerged in Italy in the last years. In her approach to art she has dealt with photography, videos, installations and performances, developing a kind of work where shape and meaning continuously cross media borderlines.... READ MORE...
Aether Architecture: Real Spaces, Virtual Spaces
Aether Architecture is a design and architecture studio based in Budapest, Hungary , that is known at an international level for its innovative and conceptual approach to media architecture.... READ MORE...
Christina Ray: Open Source Territories
Christina Ray lives in Brooklyn, New York. She's an artist and a curator focusing her efforts on psychogeography, the creative investigation of physical and psychological spaces inside the cities, she founded Glowlab, an initiative which produces art linked to the fruition and interpretation of urban spaces, as well as the Conflux Festival.... READ MORE...
Geert Lovink: Free Cooperations In P2p Networks
During the latest Video Vortex meeting organized by the Institute for Network Culture in Amsterdam at Club 11, the large networker's community met to analyze how video and other materials are shared through the net. In substance the questions that were addressed were how video and audiovisual information is used and shared through the net, how platforms like Vlog and podcast are developing and what tomorrow's television will look like in terms of clustering of information and free construction of programs with independent content.... READ MORE...
Carlo Zanni: Information Is The New Color
Carlo Zanni, who was born in La Spezia in 1975, is an international artist whose works have been shown in many galleries and museums, from Rome to New York .... READ MORE...
Trok!: Free Music, In Free Spaces
In Italy , more than anywhere else, the cultural life of experimentation is related to political underground through a system that developed from the 60's. Social Centers and Squat have been locations of the (electronic and not) experimentation of the 90's, with alternate fortune.... READ MORE...
Tonewheels: Sound Optical Synthesis
The history of cinema and of visual arts is rich with moments in which visionary directors take their work into hybrid directions where physics, science, technology and music intersect. Chromatic futurist music, the abstract animations of people like Ruttman, Eggelin and Fischinger, the many visual music experiments of the beginning of the nineteenth century can be seen as the forerunners of contemporary forms of digital audio-visual interaction.... READ MORE...
Konic Theatre, Terra Y Vida
Catalan theatre company Konic Thtr, created by Alain Bauman , artist and multimedia artist, and by Rosa Sanchez , dancer and choreographer, has attracted a large audience with its latest interactive theatre/dance work, NOU I_D , previewed at Cultania, Catania's multimedia theatre festival conceived by Salvatore Zinna.... READ MORE...
Dna: Dust Eye / Dust Architecture
Architecture and technology, design and digital media: a more and more daring connection that may seem outrageous because of its hybrid and audacious nature. After the two episodes dedicated to Lab(au) and Limitezero on the last issues of DIgimag, another piece has been added to this complicated mosaic, which is still far from being completed.... READ MORE...
Tech Stuff, Electronic Music Handbook
The following article is three different things at the same time. Number one: the prosecution of an interview I made to Lucia Nicolai (Editorial Manager of Qoob) published in Digimag 28 (https://digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=973). Number two: in-depth examination to understand the author/user that was firstly valorized by this experimental television, that is Giorgio Sancristoforo, better known as Tobor Experiment.... READ MORE...
Scanner: Intellectual Electronica
Since his debut, Scanner has been an unclassifiable artist inside of the crammed panorama of electronic creativity. Actually Robin Rimbaud is well-known in the world of electro-music, appreciated by his own spiritual father, Karlheinz Stockhausen, but he always moves in the fertile ground of contamination of new technologies and of those potentialities offered by the means of electronic expression and integrated media.... READ MORE...
Annalist: Controllo, Terrore E Sorveglianza
In anni recenti in Germania, come del resto un po' ovunque in Europa, l'opposizione politica ed il giornalismo di indagine sono stati messi pesantemente sotto attacco da polizia e servizi segreti. ... READ MORE...
Giuseppe La Spada: The Aesthetics Of A Digital World
I knew Giuseppe La Spada by chance, at the wonderful performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto last year during the third edition of Festival delle Arti Contemporanee in Rovereto. In that occasion the Sicilian artist was a guest of his friend composer, with whom he carried out a net art project called 'Mo No Aware'few people have heard about, which supports a green cause, aiming at drawing people's and media's attention to radioactive contamination Japan is experiencing in the village of Rokkasho.... READ MORE...
Sign 69.com: Philip Wood’s Microprogramming
When we talk about sign69, medialounge.org, basically when we talk about Philip Wood, we deal with one of the real net artists who has immediately guessed the intrinsic communicative and expressive values of the net, beyond the technological innovation aspect.... READ MORE...
The Catalan Technological Scene
In this article I have tried to ask some of the key components of Catalan artistic and cultural scene what are the health conditions of that so-called 'scene', which has been the reference point for everybody dealing with theatre and design multimedia art.... READ MORE...